Deciding What to Teach and Test: Developing, Aligning, and Auditing the Curriculum.The debate over high-stakes testing A high-stakes test is an assessment which has important consequences for the test taker. If the examinee passes the test, then the examinee may receive significant benefits, such as a high school diploma or a license to practice law. has become almost moot An issue presenting no real controversy. Moot refers to a subject for academic argument. It is an abstract question that does not arise from existing facts or rights. for those of us in education who must use assessments as an accountability tool for our school systems and, in some cases, personal accountability. Deciding What to Teach and Test: Developing, Aligning and Auditing the Curriculum provides district and campus leaders with a guide for addressing the high-stakes assessment issue. Fenwick English, father of a curriculum audit process for schools, provides a simple answer here for meeting accountability requirements: alignment. The alignment process ensures the written, taught and tested curriculums are the same. This book gives practitioners a template (1) A pre-designed document or data file formatted for common purposes such as a fax, invoice or business letter. If the document contains an automated process, such as a word processing macro or spreadsheet formula, then the programming is already written and embedded in the for developing a curriculum whose purpose is to focus and connect the work of teachers in the system. English gives practical approaches to curriculum development and alignment. Alignment, English says, is much more than just teaching to the test. It means being fair to all concerned-students (knowing what skill is expected), teachers (knowing on what criteria they might be evaluated) and systems (knowing to what standard it will be held), As he states at the outset, "The system itself is the problem." Along with an earlier work, Curriculum Alignment: A Facilitator's Guide to Deciding What to Teach and Test, Fenwick's book can serve as the basis of staff development activities. (Deciding What to Teach and Test: Developing, Aligning, and Auditing the Curriculum, by Fenwick W. English, Corwin Press, 2455 Teller TELLER. An officer in a bank or other institution. He is said to take that name from tallier, or one who kept a tally, because it is his duty to keep the accounts between the bank or other institution and its customers, or to make their accounts tally. Road, Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. , Calif. 91320, 1999, 144 pp., $21.95 softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. ) |
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